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chicago/new york, day 06

while michael had some scrambled eggs in a wrap again, i tried
something totally different: fruits for breakfast. though quite
expensive the fruits were really delicious. i got some kiwi,
oranges, melons, grapes, and pineapples. then we were heading for
central park and walked down 5th avenue. a shopping street with
almost only shops for luxury goods like gucci, cartier, prada,
tiffany and other stuff no men would need. instead i forced
michael to enter a disney store since i wanted to look for some
"bolt"-cat (don't know the cat's name) merchandising articles,
but they had none. instead all the stuff for kids that will turn
them into little princesses or pirates, etc. though this one was
not such a colour-flash as the one i've visited in paris/france.
next stop was an apple store (i guess it's the one that appears
in an simpon's episode). then we arrived at the central park.
quite a very huge park and we only walked about two thirds of
it, passing by several lakes. at the "jacqueline kennedy onassis
reservoir" lake we left all the cute little squirrels, exiting
the park to stand right in front of the "guggenheim museum"
(well known from a scene in the "the international" movie. nice
thing about the museum is that you do not need to pay to walk
through the building on the ground floor. so that's what we did.
after a ride with the underground we arrived at "china town", an
area where you can almost only find signs and shop-banners in
chinese. absolutely wonder- ful (though unfotunately not japa-
nese), since it reminded me so much of japan - strange signs
everywhere and you have no idea what they say or what the shops
are about. close to china town we ended at our last goal for
today, namely "brooklyn bridge".

now, on the sixth day of my stay it's time for some random facts
about americans: there are less fat people than i expected. food
tends to be very fatty and comes in way too big portions. in
restaurants there are almost always sugared soft drinks only.
there's rarely (mineral) water offered too. ice is added to
every drink they serve. starbucks has quite good coffee. there
are american flags everywhere, be it flying or printed some-
where. americans are very friendly. water from the tap always
had a taste of chlorine so far.

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